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Bongo (name)
Bongo is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Ali Bongo (magician) (1929–2009), British comedy magician * Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023 and son of Omar Bongo * Amba Bongo, writer and advocate * Bongani Bongo, South African politician * Christ Bongo (born 1976), Congolese football striker * Edith Lucie Bongo (1964–2009), First Lady of Gabon from 1989 to 2009 * Martin Bongo (born 1940), Gabon political figure and diplomat * Omar Bongo (1935–2009), former president of Gabon * Pietro Bongo Pietro Bongo (alternate spelling: Petrus Bungus) was a renaissance Italian writer. Life He came from a noble family. He was born and raised in Bergamo, Italy. He died on 24 September 1601. Career He studied the four mathematical arts of ... (died 1601), renaissance Italian writer See also * Bongo (other)#People * Bonga (other) * Mbongo (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Bongo (magician)
William Oliver Wallace (8 December 1929 – 8 March 2009), known by his stage name Ali Bongo, was a British comedy magician and former president of The Magic Circle, who performed an act in which he was known as the "Shriek of Araby". Early life Bongo was born as William Oliver Wallace in Bangalore, British India, where his father (also called William) was serving as a sergeant major with the 1st Battalion of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Young William spent his early years on a British station in Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, before going to Britain with his mother Lillian at the age of seven. After William Wallace senior had ended his army service, the family moved to Sutton Valence in Kent and young William won a scholarship to Sutton Valence School, leaving at the age of 16 to begin his career as an entertainer. His time in National Service was spent with the Royal Army Pay Corps. He worked for Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio and was manager of the magic dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959) also known as Ali Ben Bongo is a Gabonese former politician and dictator who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 until he was deposed in a 2023 Gabonese coup d'état, coup in 2023. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party, Bongo is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president from 1967 until his death in 2009. During his father's presidency, Bongo was Minister for Foreign Affairs (Gabon), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1991, represented Bongoville as a deputy in the National Assembly of Gabon, National Assembly from 1991 to 1999, and was the Ministry of National Defense (Gabon), Minister of National Defense from 1999 to 2009. After his father's death, Bongo was elected president in the 2009 Gabonese presidential election, 2009 presidential election, marking the first political dynasty in the country. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amba Bongo
Amba Bongo (born April 21, 1962) is a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Kinshasa where she studied English and African Culture at Gombe's ''l'Institut Supérieur Pédagogique.'' She also studied Psychology at the University of Warocqué in Mons, Belgium''.'' Since 1994 she has worked within the British legal system and work as project director to ''Active Women'' a refugee community organisation supporting vulnerable French speaking African women refugees and asylum seekers seeking to settle in the United Kingdom. Amba writes novels, poems and short stories and she currently lives in London. Her first novel ''Une femme en exil'' () was published in 2000 by L’Harmattan, Paris. The story is about Anna, who finds a job as an academic adviser at the University of Kinshasa, but she is taken away by members of the state security service under who she endures suffering, humiliation and torture before she is ultimately exiled Exile is ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bongani Bongo
Bongani Thomas Bongo (born 29 June 1978) is a South African politician and the former Minister of State Security, a position to which he was appointed on 17 October 2017 by President Jacob Zuma until he was relieved from the post on 28 February 2018 by President Cyril Ramaphosa. He was the only appointment that had not been a cabinet minister before. He served as President of the University of Limpopo's Alumni and Convocation Association between 2016 and 2022, and became its emiratus president soon after that. As the Minister of State Security, Bongo headed the State Security Agency of South Africa. A lawyer and ANC politician from Mpumalanga, Bongo was elected to the National Assembly in the May 2014 national elections. He actively contributed to several parliamentary committees, including the Constitutional Review Committee, which examined possible amendments to Section 25 of the South African Constitution. Additionally, he played a role in the ad hoc committees tasked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Bongo
Christ Bongo-Zanoni (born 11 August 1976) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for SV Wilhelmshaven, Hannover 96, Gazélec Ajaccio, FC Aarau, FC Schaffhausen, FC Solothurn, FC Thun and FC 105 Libreville, and also represented the Republic of the Congo internationally. Club career Bongo was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. His first European club was SV Wilhelmshaven of the Regionalliga Nord, the third tier of German football. In his single season at the club he made 26 league appearances, scoring six goals. Wilhelmshaven were involved in a struggle against relegation, but Bongo's goals, including a late winner against SV Lurup, helped the club to finish a single place above the relegation zone. During the 1997 close season Bongo joined another Regionalliga Nord side, Hannover 96, signing a three-year contract. His Hannover debut did not come until November, when he played in a 4–0 victory against Sportfreunde Ricklingen. He continued his nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Lucie Bongo
Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba (née Sassou Nguesso; March 10, 1964 – March 14, 2009) was the First Lady of Gabon as the wife of President Omar Bongo from 1989 to 2009. She was part of the Bongo family. Biography Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba was born March 10, 1964. Her father was Denis Sassou Nguesso, who later served as the President of the Republic of the Congo (1979–1992 and 1997 to date). Her marriage to President Bongo on August 4, 1989, was viewed politically as an example of cooperation between the two countries, according to ''Reuters''. She was a medical doctor by education, a pediatrician, with HIV/AIDS as one of her main focuses. She helped create a forum for African first ladies to fight AIDS and founded associations for vulnerable children and people with disabilities. Later life and death In 2009, she was hospitalized in Rabat, Morocco. On March 14, 2009, she died at the hospital, four days after her 45th birthday. The statement announcing her death specified ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Bongo
Martin Bongo (July 4, 1940 – 18 November, 2023) was a Gabon political figure and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Gabon from 1976 to 1989. Bongo, a nephew of President Omar Bongo,James Franklin Barnes''Gabon: Beyond the Colonial Legacy''(1992), page 57. was born in Lekei, located in Haut-Ogooué Province. In 1989, President Bongo appointed his son, Ali-Ben Bongo, to succeed Martin Bongo as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bongo was the Special Representative of the African Union to the Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ... as of 2003. Pana, October 17, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until Death and state funeral of Omar Bongo, his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second Vice President of Gabon, vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president. Bongo headed the single-party regime of the PDG until 1990, when, faced with public pressure, he was forced to introduce multi-party politics into Gabon. His political survival despite intense opposition to his rule in the early 1990s seemed to stem once again from consolidating power by bringing most of the major Opposition (politics), opposition leaders at the time to his side. The 1993 Gabonese presidential election, 1993 presidential election was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Bongo
Pietro Bongo (alternate spelling: Petrus Bungus) was a renaissance Italian writer. Life He came from a noble family. He was born and raised in Bergamo, Italy. He died on 24 September 1601. Career He studied the four mathematical arts of the quadrivium: arithmetic and geometry, music theory and astronomy, and philosophy and theology, beside the classical poetry and the occult sciences of magic and kabbalah. He mastered the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. In his books, he has tried his best to reconcile Pythagorean doctrine with Christian theology. His major work, the ''Numerorum Mysteria'' was first published in 1591 and received an ''imprimatur'' from the Catholic Church. It explores the mystical significance of numbers, beginning with lengthy discourses on the numbers one, two and three, and continuing with shorter tracts on significant numbers later in sequence. Bongo draws on a wide range of sources, including the pagan literature and philosophy of Classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bongo (other)
Bongo may refer to: Entertainment * ''Bongo'' (Australian TV series), on air from August to November 1960 * Bongo Comics, a comic book publishing company * Bongo (''Dragon Ball'') or Krillin, a character in ''Dragon Ball'' media * ''Bongo'' (Indian TV series), an Indian television drama for children 2004 * Bongo, a character in the Matt Groening comic strip ''Life in Hell'' * Bongo, a dog who played drums in the ITV children's series ''Animal Kwackers'' * Bongo Submarine, a fictional vehicle in the film ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' * Bongo, the cartoon ape bouncer from the 1988 film, ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' * " Little Bear Bongo", a 1930 short story for children by Sinclair Lewis ** ''Bongo'', a segment of the 1947 Disney film ''Fun and Fancy Free'', adapted from the Lewis story Music * Bongo drum, a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other * The Bongos, an America pop music band * Music Man Bongo, a model of bass guitar * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonga (other)
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Bonga is a town in Ethiopia. Bonga may also refer to: People * Bonga (name) * Bonga (musician) (born 1942), Angolan singer-songwriter Places * Bonga (Tanzanian ward) * Bonga, Burkina Faso * Bonga, Vologda Oblast, Russia * Bonga Field, an oil field in Nigeria Other uses * A spirit or god in the religion of the Santal people * ''Ethmalosa fimbriata'', common name Bonga shad or simply Bonga See also * Sing-Bonga, sun god of the Birhor people * Bongo (other) Bongo may refer to: Entertainment * ''Bongo'' (Australian TV series), on air from August to November 1960 * Bongo Comics, a comic book publishing company * Bongo (''Dragon Ball'') or Krillin, a character in ''Dragon Ball'' media * ''Bongo'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
